Wardrobe-hook



(No Model.) 1

G. W. TUCKER. WARDROBE HOOK.

No. 425,918. v Patented Apr. 15, 1-890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE WV. TUCKER, OF WATERVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

WARDROBE-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 425,918, dated April15, 1890.

Serial ITO-335,787- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE WV. TUCKER,'a citizen of the United States,residing at Waterville, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements inWVardrobe-Hooks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

Myinvention relates to the construction of wardrobe-hooks, towel-racks,and similar articles,more especially a fine grade thereof, and hasforits object the production of an attractive and salable article, whichmay be pro-' duced at such an extremely low cost as to enable it to beplaced upon the market at a price no greater than the present price ofmuch inferior goods.

\Vith this end in view I have devised the novel construct-ion of whichthe following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings,is a specification.

I Figure 1 is a front elevation, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 aback view, of one of my novel wardrobe-hooks; and Fig. lis a top planview, the arms of the hook being removed and the central portion thereofin section.

As the invention is precisely the same when applied to the variousarticles of this general class, I have deemed it sufficient for thepurposes of this application to show it applied to wardrobe-hooks as Iplace them upon the market.

The entire device consists of three parts adapted to be formed bydies-to wit, a baseplate, a hook, and an attaching-plate.

' 1 denotes apiece of heavy wire bent to form a hook or pair of hooks,the central portion of said piece (denoted by 2) being left straight toprovide a ready means of attachment to the base-plate, which is denotedby 3.

4 is an attaching-plate, the central portion 5 of which is curved to fitclosely around the around the edges and clamped down firmly' upon theback of the base-plate, as clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4:, therebyholding the parts firmly together.

The device is secured in place upon a strip or any suitable piece ofwood-work by means of screws passing through holes 6, made through theattaching-plate and the baseplate, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

It will be noticed that my improved construction is such as to enablethe parts all to be formed mechanically and the assembling together ofthe parts to be performed by dies. The hooks, including the centralportion by which they are attached in place, are formed by a suitablemachine from a coil of wire. The base-plate is struck up and formedcomplete at a single operation. The attachingplate is formed at a singleoperation, and the securing together of the parts is performed at asingle operation, hand labor being entirely dispensed with in themanufacture.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- A pivoted Wardrobe-hookconsisting of a

